Conflict and human African trypanosomiasis

• Published in: Social science & medicine (1982) Vol. 72; no. 3; pp. 398 - 407
• Main Authors: Berrang-Ford, Lea, Lundine, Jamie, Breau, Sebastien
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2011; Elsevier; Pergamon Press Inc
• Series: Social Science & Medicine
• Subjects: Africa; Africa South of the Sahara - epidemiology; Biological and medical sciences; Civil War; Conflict; Conflict Africa Trypanosomiasis Sleeping sickness GIS Spatial analysis War Violence; Correlation analysis; Diseases; Endemic Diseases; Epidemics; Geographical information systems; GIS; Human protozoal diseases; Humans; Infectious diseases; Intervention; Medical sciences; Miscellaneous; Parasitic diseases; Politics; Protozoal diseases; Public Health; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Qualitative Research; Risk Assessment; Sleeping sickness; Space-Time Clustering; Spatial analysis; Sub Saharan Africa; Terrorism; Trypanosomiasis; Trypanosomiasis, African - epidemiology; Violence; War; Warfare; Africa; Africa South of the Sahara; Sub-Saharan Africa; GIS; Sleeping sickness; Conflict; Violence; Africa; Spatial analysis; War; Trypanosomiasis; Human; Protozoal disease; Parasitosis; African sickness; Infection; Geographic information system; Social medicine; Public health

Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) has reemerged in sub-Saharan Africa as a disease of major public health importance. The success of HAT elimination in sub-Saharan Africa is subject to the feasibility of controlling, eliminating, or mitigating the determinants of incidence in affected countries. C...